Halloween 2009

Wow I can't believe that Halloween has come and gone. Where did the year go? It was a pretty typical Halloween - except that we spent the afternoon at the beach. Eric had a football game that morning and after we headed to the beach. We met some friends down at Hickam Beach and enjoyed the sun! At Hickam Beach you can rent kayaks and paddleboards. We decided to rent paddleboards and we would all take turns with going out and watching the kids (there were 4 couples). That is the first time I had paddleboarded and it is alot harder than you would imagine. I had a lot of time trying to get my balance. Me and Eric have decided the next time he has a day off when little Eric has school we are going to go paddleboarding again. We got home in enough time to shower, eat dinner and than it was time to go trick-or-treating. We were going with our friends up the street. Me and big Eric were not going to dress up but everybody was and we didn't want to feel left out. I had to think of some costumes for us real quick. I decided to go as a Pampered Chef and big Eric went as a tourist (he had major raccoon eyes from the beach earlier in the day). Little Eric was the cutest pirate around. All in all it was a productive Halloween.

carving pumpkins

(we didn't realize that here in Hawaii don't carve your pumpkin till the day before Halloween. We had carved ours on Monday, the next day they had already started to mold and Wednesday we threw them away because they were starting to rot. Needless to say we didn't have any pumpkins on our doorstop on Halloween.)

Eric scooping out the guts

concentrating really hard on my intricate design

little Eric's pumpkin that he carved himself

our finished products

the cutest pirate ever (the first year ever he could wear flip flops trick or treating)

our family Halloween picture (i know my hat looks retarded. It was a 5 minute project :)~ )